VCE is a converged infrastructure company formed in 2009 through a joint venture between EMC, Cisco, VMware, and Intel. It pioneered the converged infrastructure market with reference architectures and converged products. In 2014 it was acquired by EMC and has since expanded its portfolio. It offers converged systems like Vblock and hyper-converged systems like VxRack, which provide optimized, flexible, efficient, and protected infrastructure to customers through a single point of support. VCE has over 1200 customers, $2.5B in annual revenue, and is the market share leader in converged infrastructure.